Yeah, the terminal is often easier than the GUI once you learn how to use it effectively. I find typing a one-line command easier than figuring out how to do what I want if what I want is buried several menus deep.

I do like Ubuntu for its ease of configuration, though. I come from the days when you had to open text configuration files in /etc/ in your favorite text editor and hack those files by hand. That gets kinda tiresome after a while.

Thank you for this. I was in the same boat. I was a former Semagic user, where Semagic used to run fine via Wine/PlayonLinux, but that no longer worked and I was panicking. Thanks so much for helping those of us who only know how to do Synaptec or Software Updater! (My dear friend, the computer guru, does all my computer building and repair work; but he lives over two hours away, and it's difficult to do these things in real time over the phone.)